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Introduction: Life satisfaction is an essential component of students' psychological health. Therefore, identifying the factors influencing students' life satisfaction is very important. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of basic needs and attachment styles in predicting life satisfaction of high school students. Method: The design of the present study was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study includes all high school students during the academic year of 2016-2017. 459 students (299 boys and 160 girls) of the second-grade secondary school of District 2 of Qom were selected as the sample by convenience sampling. The instruments used included the Basic Psychological Needs Scales (PBNS), Attachment Styles Scale, and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used to analyze the data. Results: The results of regression analysis showed that autonomy and competence with standard coefficient 0.21 (p<0.01) and 0.31(p<0.01) respectively, and secure and ambivalent attachment styles with standard coefficients 0.12 (p<0.05) and – 0.31 (p<0.01) respectively, have an effect on life satisfaction of students. The basic need for Relatedness and the Avoidant attachment style were not able to predict the life satisfaction. Conclusion: The results of this study confirmed the role of basic psychological needs and attachment styles in predicting the life satisfaction of high school students. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the role of factors of basic psychological needs and attachment styles in improve the life satisfaction of students.

The Stress Mindset Measure consists of eight items to assess whether individuals hold a stress-is-enhancing or a stress-is-debilitating mindset. The current research is a cross-sectional study and aimed to investigate the factor structure, internal consistency reliability, and construct and convergent validity of the Farsi version of the Stress Mindset Measure (SMM). Prior to conducting the study, forward and backward translations of the SMM were performed. Using the convenience sampling method, we recruited 400 none-clinical sample (161 men and 239 women; aged 18 to 69). We utilized SPSS version 24, Amos, and Mplus 7.1 software to analyze the data. Results revealed satisfactory reliability and validity indexes for the Farsi version of the Stress Mindset Measure. The internal consistency of the Farsi version of the Stress Mindset Measure was in the excellent range (α = 0.87). The results of the confirmatory factorial analysis revealed two factors of the Stress Mindset Measure instead of the single factor suggested by the previous studies (fitness indices for the two-factor model were RMSEA = 0.78, CFI = 0.96, and TLI = 0.94). Moreover, we found that the stress-is-debilitating mindset is positively associated with stress (r = 0.233), depression (r = 0.163), and anxiety (r = 0.197). However, this mindset has been found to have no significant relationship with cognitive strategies of emotion regulation and life satisfaction. Also, findings showed no significant correlation between the stress-is-enhancing mindsets and the other variables. The results of this study suggest that the Farsi SMM has proper psychometric properties to assess stress mindsets.

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the age trends of various types of memory including priming, working memory (WM), episodic memory (EM), and semantic memory (SM) from adulthood to old age, as well as the mediating role of inhibition control (IC) in the relation between age and memory. Methods: 796 healthy adults aged between 25 and 83 years participated in this cross-sectional study and were assessed using a comprehensive battery of memory, digit span, and the Stroop Color-Word tests Results: The scatter plot with LOESS fitting line showed EM and WM declined steadily from age 25, SM increased mildly to 55 followed by a decrease, and priming did not change with age. The mediating analysis and bootstrap test showed that IC mediated the relation between age and EM and SM (β= – 0.097, P=0.002), and SM (β= – 0.086, P=0.001). Conclusions: Our results showed that age and various types of memory had different trajectories and IC is a fundamental mediator in explaining age related decline in SM and EM.